Etymology

hypersurface

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Today it means: A n-dimensional surface in a space (often a Euclidean space) of dimension n+1 Full definition →

English surface ← Middle French surface ← Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Hellenic*hupér
  4. Ancient Greekῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
  5. Ancient Greekῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)
  6. Englishhyper-
  7. Middle Frenchsurface
  8. Englishsurface
  9. English todayhypersurface

From hyper- + surface.

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